07-11-2015, 10:06 PM
I wonder how much attention this Trumbo effort will get in the new movie Trumbo.
I think our dissent is too refined and sophisticated for any mention of Executive Action today. It would blow all the marketing done in manicuring the left into a small group of folks who say neo-liberlaism a lot.
This movie will be interesting to in terms of how full spectrum dissent contrasts with the marketed and ultra-processed dissent of the cable and internet era. Mostly this contrast will be possible if we look at what is left out and what assumptions are backed in by reimposing today's lens back upon the three network past. That's my guess anyway.
Check the actors then look at the budget. Disjunctive. This one was low budget because it had to be and my bet is Hollywood re-aborts it from historical memory. Or perhaps Noam Chomsky will call Trumbo a "Conspiricist" That would be a difficult task.
Most likely Executive Action will not be mentioned in the film, but it might be there ina kind of negative template i.e. implications about what is CONSIDERED and marketed as dissent today being imposed back on a completely different political environment of pre-assassinations pre-internet America when COINTELPRO was still needed because Facebook was still needed, facebook wasn't around yet and the critical community hadn't been siloed into talking mostly to itself.
I think our dissent is too refined and sophisticated for any mention of Executive Action today. It would blow all the marketing done in manicuring the left into a small group of folks who say neo-liberlaism a lot.
This movie will be interesting to in terms of how full spectrum dissent contrasts with the marketed and ultra-processed dissent of the cable and internet era. Mostly this contrast will be possible if we look at what is left out and what assumptions are backed in by reimposing today's lens back upon the three network past. That's my guess anyway.
Check the actors then look at the budget. Disjunctive. This one was low budget because it had to be and my bet is Hollywood re-aborts it from historical memory. Or perhaps Noam Chomsky will call Trumbo a "Conspiricist" That would be a difficult task.
Most likely Executive Action will not be mentioned in the film, but it might be there ina kind of negative template i.e. implications about what is CONSIDERED and marketed as dissent today being imposed back on a completely different political environment of pre-assassinations pre-internet America when COINTELPRO was still needed because Facebook was still needed, facebook wasn't around yet and the critical community hadn't been siloed into talking mostly to itself.